It's
a familiar cry - 'Enforce the 20,000 gun laws already on the
books!' This is considered by conservatives to be the commonsense
approach to crime prevention, as opposed to drafting and passing
new legislation to deal with the allegedly rampant gun violence in
this nation - a typically liberal response to the problem of gun
violence.
But is advocating enforcement of current laws really
a conservative position? Rather let us ask another question - how
is it 'conservative' to support the existence of laws enacted by
antigun socialists? Do laws attain 'conservatism' once passed,
making it virtuous to support them, regardless of the
consequences? The only answer to these questions is no, no, and
no.
Our glorious, dead-letter Constitution states
that the "right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall
not be infringed." Is the definition of 'uninfringed' equal
to 'up to 20,000 laws, but no more than?' I know this will
infuriate the nanny-statist heathens in Washington, DC, but 'not
infringed' means if you're tall enough to put your money on the
counter, you can have a gun. That also means convicted felons can
and should be able to own firearms.
Goldberg...you've gone nuts! No, let us
examine this issue [and I did this before, a few years ago, but it
bears repeating.] Our nation was built on private ownership
of firearms. You may hate guns, but were it not for them, you
would not be here today to whine about them. Being that it is the
right of every free man to own weapons, if a man cannot be trusted
with a weapon upon release from prison, he should not be let
out. This fundamentally simple concept speaks volumes about
the failure of our judicial system to hand out punishments
consistent with the crimes committed.
In a reasonable world, everyone would be armed
who wanted to be; murderers, child molesters, rapists, etc. would
be executed regularly and visibly; committers of non-violent
crimes [i.e. burglary, car theft, embezzlement, etc.,] would be
treated to prisons with minimal heat in the winter, minimal A/C in
the summer, minimally nourishing food in the cafeteria, and only
one book to read - placed in the cell of each prisoner - the Bible
[i.e. no TV, radio, dish, tapes, or computers.] It would be a
place to which no man in his right mind would ever want to return.
Barbaric? Hardly - it's the way things used to be in this country
a long time ago, when crime was low and streets were safe.
So, how do we eliminate 20,000 gun laws when
outright communists control the government and millions of
brain-dead voters keep re-electing them? Hint: It won't happen at
the ballot box.
